If you’re still trying to figure out what to do tonight, you might want to ingest some culture and pick up some tickets to the booze-themed Mixed Taste lecture tonight at MCA Denver…
Eating tacos at a joint whose menu mainly focuses on Italian food is usually not a good idea, but the Asian-inspired soft shell crab tacos at this relatively new restaurant seemed like a good idea at the time, if only because the owner/chef has Vietnamese blood running through her veins…
Denver Beer Co doesn’t have a kitchen, but the city’s zoning inspectors may be tempted to double check. The brewery, which opens today on Platte Street, serves Kaffir Lime Wheat as fresh and nuanced as any chef’s signature appetizer, a rauschbier that smells and tastes like a plate of smoked…
In this week’s Chef and Tell interview with Brett Smith, the executive chef of Zolo Grill in Boulder, Smith admits that you won’t find too many dishes on his menu absent of chiles — a staple (along with pig) in his kitchen. While I was having dinner at Zolo, Smith…
The Village at Edgewater, a “soft-play cafe” near Sloan’s Lake, quietly closed earlier this month, leaving behind a voice message thanking customers for the “pleasure” of serving them. The kid-friendly restaurant and community center had opened last year with a professed goal to “entertain, educate and empower parents and their…
Paxia – Alta Cocina Mexicana is set to open today at 40th and Tejon, and while fans of the nearby Los Carboncitos are overjoyed, at least one is also dubious: Dear Steve and Michelle: You really thought that the Sunnyside Neighborhood needed yet ONE MORE mexican restaurant?!?!? In the six…
The Friday fish fry is a time-honored tradition in Catholicism — and though many religious rules have gone by the wayside, fried fish tastes so heavenly that we’re sticking by this one. And tonight, inspired by a recent shipment of Alaskan cod and flounder, Frank’s Kitchen, the new Whittier neighborhood…
Some traditions have lasted for centuries because they’re simply fabulous — like afternoon tea. Ceylon Pearl Tea, 7770 East Iliff Avenue, will host an afternoon tea from 3 to 6 p.m. with delicacies and a tea talk by Judy Williams. For more information, call 303-745-2800. For information on dozens of…
The stock market’s fluctuating wildly, economists are giving glum prognostications that run the gamut from double-dip recession to depression and, best of all, the politicians we put in charge of taking care of the greater good are just making things worse. So no time like the present for a cheap…
My meals at Westerkamps Steakhouse and Meat Market, which I review in this week’s Westword, unleashed a strange but insatiable craving for steak — cheap steak, like a griddled flatiron or hanger, preferably sided by a couple of eggs and a pile of potatoes. Which is how I found myself…
Aside from the vegetarian burgers from Root Down, which, ironically, were the first to sell out, last night’s porny Denver Burger Battle was a carnivorous animal-style nirvana of bloody meat candy, bacon and foie gras. The sold-out soiree pitted twelve restaurants, all of which hustle burgers in one guise or…
In the months since a massive fire consumed Boulder’s Oak at Fourteenth, requiring a remodel that would strip the property to its studs, owner Bryan Dayton hasn’t exactly been idling. The former president of the Colorado Bartenders’ Guild has kept up with staff trainings, continued his involvement with the state’s…
Snarf’s, the chain of sandwich shops that got its start in Boulder and is now taking a bite out of Denver, closed its location at 1310 College Avenue in Boulder last month. According to employees at the original location on Pearl Street, this Boulder outpost couldn’t draw enough customers to…
Pho Pasta, a weirdly named restaurant (with an equally odd menu that hustled both pho and fettuccine Alfredo) that opened in March at 295 South Pennsylvania Street, shuttered a few weeks ago, but the space won’t be vacant for long: Dane Huguley, a local real-estate developer with a passion for…
Brett Smith Zolo Grill 2525 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder 303-449-0444 www.zologrill.com This is part two of my interview with Brett Smith, the executive chef at Zolo Grill. Part one of my chat with Smith ran in this space yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: My all-time favorite is a classic red-sauce Italian…
First Applebee’s revved up a food truck (aren’t there enough brick-and-mortar locations if someone is craving a sizzler platter?). But that corporate move is a lot less bizarre than this one: The Gap is getting in on the action with a food truck called Pico de Gap. At least Applebee’s…
We never sausage a thing! On Tuesday, em>Ludo Bites America took on Colorado, , with a segment featuring Biker Jim’s — and fans of Jim Pittenger and his dogs are ready to take a bite out of host Ludo Lefebvre. Here’s Jake’s take: It was cool to see Biker Jim…
Want to get an early start on the weekend? At 3 p.m. every Thursday, Local Table Tours hosts a Cocktail Tour in Boulder. Tickets are $30; for more information and the itinerary, go to www.localtabletours.com. For information on dozens of culinary events around town, visit our online Food & Drink…
Because of Colorado’s increasingly controversial liquor laws, only one outlet of any grocery chain — Safeway, King Soopers, Target, Whole Foods and the like — can sell full-strength beer, wine and alcohol. Target’s spot is in the superstore in Glendale, but until recently, its single aisle of liquid refreshment hasn’t…
When I first stepped through the doors of the covered wagon-adorned building that houses Westerkamps Steakhouse and Meat Market, which I review in this week’s Westword, I thought I was on the way to a quiet breakfast special of pork chops and eggs. What I found, though, was a kitschy…
It’s a well-known fact in the wine industry that the majority of consumers decide which bottle of fermented grape juice to spring for based solely on their attraction to the label. If you’d count yourself as a member of that particular buying demographic, we feel compelled to tell you’re generally…
Dry Dock Brewing kicked its weekly firkin in a record 49 minutes last Friday, and since the taproom opens at 3 p.m., that means there was none left for anyone who showed up after 3:50 p.m., which can be tough since most people don’t get off work til later. So…
